Cosmetic-stick holder



W. G. KENDALL COSMETIC STICK HOLDER arr. 6, 1923.

Filed Dec.

3 W 6- Kama/Lb,

Patented Mar. 6, 1923;

1,447,?2? PATENT QFHQE.

WILLIAM G's KENDALL, OI NEWARK,-NEW JERSEY.

cosri'n'rrc-s'rrcx HOLDER.

Application filed December 1, 1920. Serial No. 427,584.

To allwkom it may concern:

Be it known that I, YVILLIAM G. KEN- DALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cosmetic- Stick Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to holders for cosmetic sticks and is designed chiefly for the storage and dispensing of lip and eyebrow sticks or pencils, and one of the primary objects ofthe invention is to provide a device of this class so constructed that in a single holder there is provided means for retaining and feeding two such sticks so that it is unnecessary to provide separate holders for the lip and eyebrow sticks or pencils.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel form of socket or retaining member for the sticks or pencils which member will be adapted to securely grip the-respective sticks and will be provided with a simple means whereby it may be longitudinally adjusted in the body of the holder.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is aperspective view of the holder embodying the present invention, one closure cap being removed;

Figure 2 is a detail vertical longitudinal sectional view through the holder, one of the sockets or retaining members being shown in elevation;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of one of the said members and the cosmetic stick which is to be secured within the same.

The, body of the holder is indicated in the drawings by the numeral 1 and the said body is of cylindrical tubular form and open at both ends. The ends of the body are adapted to be closed by individual closure caps 2 adapted to be frictionally fitted thereon and to seat at their inner ends against circumscribing edges 3 formed upon the wall of the body near the ends thereof. For a purpose to be presently explained the wall of the body is formed with two longitudinally extending slots indicated by the numeral 4, these slots extending preferably in alinement with each other longitudinally of the body and having their inner ends mutually spaced and their outer ends suitably spaced inwardly from the corresponding ends of the said body 1.

-Within the body there are provided two wise formed from sheet metal and com-.

prises a bottom or end wall 6 and a circumferential wall 7 which latter wall is formed with longitudinally extending slits 8 opening through the open outer end of the memher and extending nearly to the end wall 6 thereof as best shown in Figure 2 of the drawings. The metal of which this retaining member will be formed will preferably be resilient, and therefore the slits 8 define a circumferential series of resilient fingers 9 comprising a circumferential wall 7 which fingers are designed to frictionally rip the end of a cosmetic stick 10 fitted into the socket or retaining member. The retaining .members are of a diameter exteriorly adapting them to be snugly and yet slidably received in the bore of the tubular body 1 of the holder, and in order to provide for longitudinal adjustment of the retaining members within the holder body so as to permit of the cosmetic sticks being fed for use beyond the ends of the body, one of the fingers 9 of each retaining member is turned or rolled back upon itself to provide a finger piece 11 projecting through the slot 4 in the respective end portion of the body 1. In this manner a simple and yet efiective'means is provided for longitudinally adjusting the retaining members 5 and it will also be understood that inasmuch as the fingers 9 are resilient. either retaining member may be removed from the body 1 to adapt a new cosmetic stick to be fitted therein and substituted for the butt of a consumed stick, or to permit of the introduction of a new stick and new retaining member, this removal being effected by springing the finger piece 11 and the tongue 9 by which it is carried inwardly after the retaining member has been slid within the body of the holder until the finger piece is at the outer end of the respective slot 4, and then completely withdrawing the retaining member.

By reference to Figure 2 of the drawings it will be observed that when the retaining members are initially inserted or fitted into the body of the holder, the finger pieces 11 will engage against the inner end walls of the slots 4 so that the movement of the members into the body at the time of their insertion is limited, and the members are so formed as regards their dimensions that when their finger pieces 11 are in engagement against the said inner end walls of the slots 4, the end walls 6 of the two members will be either slightly spaced or just in contact, and therefore there is no probabilit of one member being inserted into the ho der to such a distance as to interfere with the insertion of the other member.

Havin thus described the invention, what is claime as new is:

In a cosmetic stick holder, a tubular body having a slot formed longitudinally in its wall, and a retaining member slidably mounted in the body and designed for the reception of one end of a cosmetic stick, the said retaining member comprising a hollow substantially cylindrical body closed at one end and having its wall formed with a pluralityof longitudinally extending incisions whereby the wall is divided into a plurality of stick gripping fingers, one of said fingers having its free end portion rolled back upon itself whereby to provide a finger piece projecting slidably through the slot in the wall of the body.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WILLIAM G. KENDALL. [n s.] 

